Don’t punish doctors for today’s strike, former health minister Dzulkefly tells Putrajaya | Malay Mail

  • 📰 malaymail
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 59 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 27%
  • Publisher: 86%

Health Health Headlines News

Health Health Latest News,Health Health Headlines

Don’t punish doctors for today’s strike, former health minister Dzulkefly tells Putrajaya

KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 — Former health minister Datuk Seri Dzulkefly Ahmad urged the Perikatan Nasional government not to take any disciplinary action against doctors who participated in today’s strike.

Using the hashtag #HartalDoktorKontrak on Twitter, the Kuala Selangor MP said the doctors were standing up for their rights in a non-violent way, and asked that it be protected. “For all it’s worth, l implore PN government not to punish or take any disciplinary action on all doctors involved in #HartalDoktorKontrak.“Appealing for their welfare to be protected,” heA group of contract doctors went on strike in front of the main entrance of Sg Buloh Hospital, July 26, 2021. — Picture by Hari Anggara

Hundreds of medical workers nationwide staged a walk-out from public hospitals earlier today in a show of dissatisfaction with their lesser employment contract terms. Others took pictures and videos of themselves dressed in black and holding placards listing their demands, which included job security, and posted them on social media.Dang Wangi police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohamad Zainal Abdullah toldearlier that the junior doctors and medical officers at Hospital Kuala Lumpur who staged a walkout are being investigated for mass gathering during the pandemic, under Rule 10 of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Regulations 2021.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Penalising or punishing the young or junior doctors who went on brief strike yesterday is as good as the pn gomen openly admitting they have failed to address & solve the actual problems!

Just do not allow this PM(?)to hijack democracy but face confidence vote for legitimacy&all other things will fall into place.Have U tried hitting a cockroach&seen it still moving actively around? Try hitting its head once; it immediately dies. dapmalaysia anwaribrahim

So shameful.. our country in a war situations.. our doctors busying claiming contract and permanent issues.. korang belajar pon byk tajaan gov..lagi nak claim itu ini.. if u r really ikhlas berkhidmat utk masyarakat.. ur rezeki will come la..

Why? Because they doctors Double standard tapes!

hannahyeoh Oooo

DrDzul Govt will take care of it ... best interest. But Dr Zul u need to take care of Selangor in its rising new cases. As head of the Task Force u shud take full accountabilty of this. Whats the point of a Task Force?

Luckily we are not Dogtor

hannahyeoh Please support ethnic Rohingya Muslim Genocide in arakan State Myanmar

PDRMsia what you want to do? Tangkap the doctors oo ok … then u jaga ICU is it? U are going to intubate is it? Who is going to look after 15000 positive cases today? Leave them alone !

hannahyeoh 🖤Pity contract doctors 🖤

Don’t worry I bet that they won’t be punished. Government just like to threaten and scare people.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 1. in HEALTH

Health Health Latest News, Health Health Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

UK health minister sparks fury by urging people not to ‘cower from’ Covid | Malay MailLONDON, July 25 — British health minister Sajid Javid was accused of insulting coronavirus victims today after urging people to take a Covid-19 vaccine and “learn to live with, rather than cower from, this virus”. Javid, who replaced Matt Hancock as health minister last month after his...
Source: malaymail - 🏆 1. / 86 Read more »

Health DG tells contract doctors to remember their oath, don't join strikeNoor Hisham says the strike could affect the patients' lives and doctors' careers. Then give them their due. Arresting them isn't going to help either , who's gonna help the patients then... no logic at all How are they gonna take care of their patients when they themselves are work to the bones? The irony is, he forgot the very oath by sucking up on politicians. Especially during Sabah election and till now.
Source: malaysiakini - 🏆 20. / 51 Read more »

Britain reports 29,173 Covid-19 cases today, lower than a day earlier | Malay MailLONDON, July 25 — Britain reported 29,173 further cases of Covid-19 today, a fall from 31,795 a day earlier, Public Health England said. It said on Twitter that data for the number of new deaths across Britain today was not yet available. — Reuters
Source: malaymail - 🏆 1. / 86 Read more »